[jira] [Created] (CB-5122) Document supported workflows

["Mike Billau (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Mike Billau created CB-5122:
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             Summary: Document supported workflows
                 Key: CB-5122
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-5122
             Project: Apache Cordova
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: Docs
    Affects Versions: 3.1.0
            Reporter: Mike Billau
            Assignee: Mike Billau


Based on the recent discussion here[1], we should document the two different supported Cordova workflows: using the CLI, and using plugman and bin scripts.  

Some of this documentation already exists but needs to be clarified and improved:

Overview guide --> "Development Paths" section[2]. This talks about getting started with the CLI and then mentions that you can switch to the platform-specific SDK tools. This section should be rewritten to make it clear that there are two distinct workflows, and that both are okay and supported. It could list out some pros and cons of each workflow (I'm sure we won't have any trouble finding those ;)). It should be prescriptive in that users should be following one of the two workflows, but it shouldn't make any statements about which is better.  

"The Command-line Interface" guide --> The "CLI workflow" guide. It generally looks complete except for some missing functionality that is documented in the CLI's README.md file (tests, hooks, some commands (serve), some merges info).

Platform Guides --> {Platform} --> {Platform} Command-line tools --> Each platform has a "Command-line tools" doc that explains all of the command line tools for that project and how to use them. We need to go through these guides and verify that they are up to date and include all of the lower level command line tools and scripts. It should read like a tutorial in the same way that the Command-line Interface guide does. 

"Using Plugman to Manage Plugins" [3] First, this guide needs to get exposed; I can't find any way to get to this guide from the docs and even had to ask a user how she managed to find it (a link from Plugman's readme!). This guide needs to be expanded quite a bit; we can probably fold most/all of Plugman's README.md file into this guide since it will be platform agnostic. 

I think those are the only pieces in the docs that need to be changed. 

[1] http://callback.markmail.org/thread/5nr7dgkquse4gdkl
[2] http://cordova.apache.org/docs/en/edge/guide_overview_index.md.html#Overview
[3]http://cordova.apache.org/docs/en/edge/plugin_ref_plugman.md.html



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